Poet Not4Prophet to Read at the University of Connecticut
The University of Connecticut’s Creative Writing Program is pleased to announce that poet Not4Prophet will give a poetry reading at 4:00 PM on Tuesday, March 25, in the new Co-Op bookstore located in Storrs Center.
Not4Prophet will be reading from his latest book of poetry, Last of the Po' Ricans y Otros Afro-Artifacts, which was published last November by 2Leaf Press. A man of many hats, he is a community activist, underground Hip-Hop MC, political punk rock singer, graffiti writer/vandal, actor, and last but never least, a poet and/or barrio bard.
Not4Prophet was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico and raised in East Harlem and the South Bronx. Reading Piri Thomas’s Down These Mean Streets at ten years old inspired him to read other writers from the Nuyorican Poets Movement. In time, he began scratching out his own “puerto-poems” on napkins and whatever else was handy.
A musician and a poet, Not4Prophet has released several indie music CDs with the bands X-Vandals and Ricanstruction, and he stars in the film Machetero. He has two self-published poetry chapbooks and his writing has been featured in several books and magazines. He currently teaches “resistance writing” at the Homeless Organizing Academy in the South Bronx.
This reading, co-sponsored by the University of Connecticut Creative Writing Program and the UConn Co-op, is free and open to the public. The new Co-op bookstore is located at One Royce Circle, Unit 101, in Storrs Center. For more information, please visit the Creative Writing Program website at www.creativewriting.uconn.edu.
For more information, contact: Sean Forbes at sean.forbes@uconn.edu